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 sorry it fell out at a time you design'd Lady Lucy and the little ones so much diversion. I reckon I am laught at for a good Intelligence for writing she was ill after she had been dead two or three days ; but by that 'tis plain I dont spend my time idley at coffee houses as may be imagined by some, for I declare notwithstanding the town is empty, I am almost harrass'd out with parties of pleasure, and have not a minute on my hands. From Twickenham I design a Saturday to go take leave of the Court and some neibouring villages, and then retire to some remote place to mortify after my volup-

tious way of living

I din'd to day at Capel More's with Lady Grace Vanes,* who cry'd at relating her mother's marriage, which she did not know till last Saterday when she din'd with her grace. As she was going away she desir'd Mr. Southcoute to carry him {sic) home, but he answerd that he was at home already, for the Duchess had done him the honour to marry him. As the Duchess had ask'd her to return the next day to meet the Duke and Duchess of Clevland, she went and when she told the duke that her mother was married to Mr. Sout., he cry'd pho, p/io, it cant be I am not such a fool neither as to be- lieve that; and she says that all she can do will never make him believe it. I visited Lady Mary Saunderson this morn- ing, and found her in black for Lady Wentworth.

��[Lord Bathurst.]

Cirencester, August 15, 1733. My dear Lord,

I ought to have writt to you before this time to have con- dol'd with your lordship upon the death of my aunt, but I have been in such a perpetuall hurry ever since, that I have not had a moment's time. I don't know what is to be say'd upon such an occasion, for tho' she seem'd likely to live some years

natural son of Charles IL, married Henry Vane, Lord Barnard. Her mother was Anne, daughter of Sir William Pulteney, of Misterton.
 * Lady Grace Fitzroy, daughter of Charles, Duke of Cleveland, a

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